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I'm just a cynic haha! It was in the spirit of the show, to be fair.

TBH when they walked out with the boombox I thought it was gonna start blasting Peter Gabriel and they'd all beg him to stay or something lol.

there are 54 seasons of chopped on hulu. i've made it to season 3. everyone is so sweaty! and bleeding. and hair everywhere. whatever happened to hats? one guy with floppy hair was actually complaining about his hair in his face and how much he was sweating. ever hear of a....hat? maybe they don't let people on reality shows wear hats. so that we can see them better. i'd rather have hats! it must be really hot in that studio.

woman making a salad with a bloody finger..........................................................oof.

Chopped has existed for 14 years and for them to have 54 "seasons" just kinda makes one boggle. They are averaging three or four seasons a year, across varying sub-brands and platforms.

Every one of us will eventually get our turn to make a meal out of Sweet Tarts, braised lamb, vermouth, and dried crickets.

I joke but I did randomly spot an ex-gf's brother as a contestant on one episode. Which I would've assumed was statistically unlikely until I learned the '54 seasons' factoid.

I started watching Alex vs America, it's kinda like Chopped but a bit more chill and tasteful. More of the cooking shown, blind judging so it's not about contestants presenting their story or whatever, much less fighting over ingredients and equipment, etc.

Old Lunch: not so long ago I heard a lecture from someone critiquing academia for its hiring priorities (i.e., administrative bloat vs. actually paying adjunct instructors). The speaker said something like "at this rate, in six years, every man, woman, and child in New Haven will be a Deputy Assistant Provost."

Sometimes I think about that in the context of reality shows. As Journey once reminded us, "Some will win, some will lose." But statistically speaking, eventually we will all either be handed a rose or be asked to pack our knives or get voted off the island. Or we will "make it work."

Theoretically I am still in the running to become America's next top model, if only because I haven't been eliminated yet.

Alex vs. America is fun for her and Eric Adjepong's chemistry. Even when AG voices her "I'm in over my head" doubts, her techniques and gamesmanship (doubling down on every mandatory ingredient) make for success. She's only placed third once, that I remember, and never lost.

She says she has no input on the theme, so curious how much the producers are aiming to test her. Like Beat Bobby Flay, seems like when there's no direct expertise, knowing the theme's framework/criteria allows her the ability to triumph.

I definitely appreciate the contestants and judges for not all being the usual incestuous Food Network choices.

I watched Too Cool To Kill (2002) on a plane and I fuckin loved it. I don't know if it's available on a streaming service.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16254308/

Now I am biased because I had a crushing headache which entirely lifted midway through the movie, after which I fully communed with the loveliness of every aspect of reality, but I do think the movie would have pushed my buttons anyway. Slapstick, sentimentality, innocence, joy, cartoonishness. There's a Stephen Chow kind of vibe. Strangely when looking this up to link it I discovered that it's essentially a Chinese remake of a Japanese movie called "The Magic Hour" (2008) .. a discovery that is honestly kind of jarring..

Especially since that involves someone going back in time 6 years.

should we do a thread for The Bear? season 2 starts next week & i am excited to talk about it

bear deserves its own thread imo

ok i’m on it

and we are go

The Bear on FX: aka HEARD! aka YES CHEF! aka Ketamine Gene Wilder cooks for u

lol sorry Too Cool To Kill was last year, 2022

it is really great, like the kind of movie I wish Mel Brooks still made

Polite Society is lit

Yeah if you haven’t seen that yet make the time. On Peacock.

Really great. Thought the stuntwoman she idolized was a Cynthia Rothrock reference until it turned out she's a real person!

Good one to catch on the big screen, but I guess that might not be an option in the US.

It was in US cinemas a couple of months ago.

The Age of Influence documentary on Hulu is pretty good. I’d never heard of any of the stories except the F-Factor diet drama, but even that one, I only had a very vague knowledge of.

Each episode is about the downfall of a social media influencer (most stories are about grifters but one is about a woman who was working her adopted children to the bone to produce YouTube content and severely abusing them).

xpost Yeah I was lucky enough to catch it in theaters here. A great experience!

I am very much enjoying Bupkis.

Extraction II is better than Extraction. Almost feels like it was directed by Peter Hyams. If that means anything to you, dive in.

I'm a sucker for dystopias with a minimialist design philosophy so I'm enjoying Class Of 09, even if it probably isn't as smart as it pretends to be. One weird thing though is that I don't think Kate Mara's name shows up in the opening credits.

Does it improve from episode 1, or is that representative?

The Last Kingdom movie is one of the worst things I've ever sat through. 2-2.5 seasons of plot smashed into 1:50.

I've only seen 3 episodes but so far I liked the first one the best.

Extraction II is better than Extraction. Almost feels like it was directed by Peter Hyams. If that means anything to you, dive in.

― but also fuck you (unperson)

I hadn't planned on watching 2, thought the first one was meh, but your taste in action trash seems to align with mine so I gave it a go -- you're right, this one is a big improvement. Especially liked the train sequence.

No SWARM talk?

we watched the first episode and in a very rare experience, just decided we didn't want to get into something that dark at that moment.

Small discussion upthread. It is dark fr. Not always an enjoyable watch like Atlanta was but still compelling

I'm up to the fifth episode but haven't had the mood to get back into it for weeks now - it's good but yeah, the bleakness is a little much

i will say i was pleasantly surprised/impressed by the Billie Eilish episode - thought she was fantastic and I kinda wanna see her in more things

Yes! Also, she very much seemed like a believable 30+yo leader figure, not a teenager as I believe she is(?)

21, although we're old enough to probably assume she's a teenager for another decade or so

what do you guys pay for in 2023? i pay for a lot. i blame the pandemic. i justify it somehow. oh right i don't do anything else. except work. i pay for...HULU live. mostly for my dad so that he can watch endless amounts of msnc and cnbc. other than that he mostly watches endless episodes of madame secretary, blue bloods, and longmire. (i had already watched multiple seasons of those shows before he moved in. so, i've had enough of them.) HULU live is like cable. 100 bucks a month. i get other stuff with HULU. Disney+, ESPN+, HBO, Starz (which i mainly got to watch all the Power shows.)

I use Roku. I like HULU because then i can just watch the TCM channel, HBO, etc, separate from HULU. I also pay for NETFLIX. Someone else pays for SPOTIFY. it's on my ROKU. some sort of family account. I never ever use it. I pay for YOUTUBE premium and that's the only way that I listen to music on the internet. I prefer the sound. SPOTIFY always sounds like digital radio to me. The kind at the end of cable t.v. I pay for CRITERION. MUBI. OVID. Someone pays for CRUNCHYROLL. Maybe me? Maybe Cyrus? But Cyrus and I need it for One Piece. We watched all of One Piece during the pandemic. We are still watching it. I actually PAY PBS 5 bucks a month to get PBS Passport. Every show that they show. (i am digging Luna + Sophie right now. which is actually called SOKO Potsdam but PBS likes a softer title I guess. I LOVE Luna on this show. Such a real performance on a pretty standard cop show. Maybe she's a method actor.) I think I pay for PEACOCK. I must. I watch stuff on there only every once in a while. I pay for ACORN, BRIT BOX, and MHz. I pay for SHUDDER. (i don't pay for paramount+ or mgm+ or apple + or Amazon. if the pandemic had been 6 months longer I totally would though. i mostly don't pay for amazon and apple because fuck amazon and apple.)

I think that's it. Hulu, Netflix, Youtube Premium, Crunchyroll, PBS, Peacock, Acorn, Brit Box, MHz, Shudder. never pulled the trigger on BFI Player. or BBC Select which for some reason is only available on the actual Roku Channel itself and for some reason i didn't like that about it.

I also justify it because I don't smoke or drink anymore. I eat edibles and watch t.v. and read. okay, the edibles are an expense. but nowhere near what i used to pay for smokes and booze. (the main reason why i stopped coming here is because of how hard everything was the last 5 years. it feels good to make it through to some other side. filled with tornadoes and trump. i started exercising. i have a stationary bike right in front of my huge television set. i try to do at least five miles a day. i stopped eating (most) sugar in march of this year. lost 30 pounds.)

I pay for Hulu ATM but that's because I re-up when it's got a Black Friday sale ($2/month for a year).

I have let my Apple TV+, Netflix, and Peacock subs lapse, but I'll re-up when the shows I like come back.

We pay for Amazon, Netflix and Hulu consistently, and I’ll usually sign up for a month of HBO once a show I want to watch is complete so I can binge it. We have a free peacock subscription and I’ll usually do the free trials for YouTube premium and apple that I get occasionally. I set alarms in my calendar to remind me to cancel.

I’m tempted to sign up for Brit box.

it is great to see you here scott. and great to hear you feel you’ve come through a harder patch. i love reading what you write.

Hulu as part of the Disney+ Espn+ bundle, Prime, Peacock Premium, and Max or HBO or whatever it is now but we’re done with that starting August;
Apple+ currently but I think we’re dropping that too maybe idk

we dumped netflix last year & i dont miss it

every once in a while, i am glad i have netflix. half of the programming i watch on netflix follows the basic structure of The Long Kiss Goodnight. Retired assassins abound. Sometimes it feels like what i need. but i could totally live without a lot of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXeNaboZvJk

it is great to see you here scott. and great to hear you feel you’ve come through a harder patch. i love reading what you write.

I get Netflix and Max free via other services, pay for Shudder and Peacock, get Apple+, Hulu and Paramount drafting off family plans.

Great to see you back here, Scott. Summer is upon us, might I suggest it might be time for another Sweet Smoke for Hotheads Mix?

I've got Criterion Channel and Amazon (because it's included with Prime, rather than because I sought it out). Had HBO Max when I was watching Succession, since it was a nice Sunday ritual. My first resort is just downloading torrents/Usenet, though, and watching through the Roku Plex app. Generally, I subscribe to watch something specific I can't find a good download for, and then just try to watching other things on that platform until I cancel at the end of the period.

Pay for Disney and Prime and have Apple free for rest of year. Did have Netflix but was sharing ex's password so recent clampdown put a stop to that. Was thinking of subscribing but they keep cancelling the shows I like so thought fuck them and am watching via other means instead.

we pay for Hulu, Apple+, and Netflix. Get HBO/Max and Amazon Prime via paying for other services. Netflix is the one we might drop.

pay for:
hulu w/o ads ($12/mo)
shudder ($6/mo)
ring of honor (which is just wrestling but is still $10/mo)
criterion ($11/mo)

mooch off of others for:
max
prime

finally canceled netflix last month, unfortunately right before i think you should leave premiered

Pay for:
Prime
Hulu + Max
Netflix

Don't want any others, really. The good thing about certain shows being on Apple or Paramount or whatever is I can immediately dismiss the idea of ever seeing them.